Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Assistant Professor, Department of Health, Aging and Society
Member, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis

Alina Gildiner is a member of CHEPA and of the Program in Policy Decision-Making at McMaster University. She is as assistant professor in both the Department of Political Science and the Department of Health, Aging and Society. She earned her PhD in Health Policy, Management and Evaluation from the University of Toronto and previously trained as a physiotherapist. She formerly held a Post-Doctoral Award with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Mustard Award from the Institute for Work & Health in Toronto. Her research interests focus on public-private change and the welfare state in historical-comparative analysis. Substantive areas of research to date have concerned privatization of rehabilitation in Ontario and of core health care in several Canadian provinces, and disability policy regimes in Europe.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Health and social policy
• Welfare states
• Comparative public policy
• Public and private insurance for health and disability
• Historical and comparative methods and institutional analysis

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Gildiner A. (2008) Did the Centre Hold? A Comparative Analysis of Health Care Policymaking and Privatization in Five Canadian Provinces. The Journal of Federalism. In revision. 

Gildiner A. (2007) The Organization of Decision Making and the Dynamics of Policy Drift: A Canadian Health-Sector Example. Social Policy & Administration 41(5), October: 505-524. 

Gildiner A. (2006) Measuring Shrinkage in the Welfare State: Forms of Privatization and Their Sequencing in a Canadian Health Care Sector. Canadian Journal of Political Science; 39(1), March: 53-75. 

Lavis JN, Ross SE, McLeod CB, Gildiner A.  Measuring the Impact of Health Research.  Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 2003; 8(3):165-170.

Williams AP, Deber T, Gildiner S, Baranek P. From Medicare to Health Care: State Retrenchment and the Profitization of Canada's Health Care System. In Unhealthy Times: Political Economy Perspectives on Health and Care in Canada. Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong, and David Coburn (eds.). Toronto, Oxford University Press, 2001.

Deber R, Gildiner A, Baranek P. Why Not Private Health Insurance? Part 1. Insurance made easy. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 1999, Sept. 7, 161(5): 539-542.

Deber R, Gildiner A, Baranek P. Why Not Private Health Insurance? Part 2. Actuarial principles meet provider dreams. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 1999, Sept. 7, 161(5):545-547.